Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 84
Cover Image
Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees
Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - 2011
Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325936
Cover Image
Determinants of Job Satisfaction Across the EU-15 : A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees
Millán, José María - 2011
Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129857
Cover Image
Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325824
Cover Image
Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?
Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Roy; van Stel, André; … - 2007
This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279542
Cover Image
Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jorn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, Roy - 2014
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instru-mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196996
Cover Image
Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2009
the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325694
Cover Image
Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?
Thurik, Roy; Carree, Martin A.; van Stel, Andre J.; … - 2011
This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the "refugee" effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048138
Cover Image
Business Accomplishments, Gender, and Entrepreneurial Self-Image
Thurik, Roy - 2009
The purpose of this study is to determine whethergender and business accomplishments influence the degree to which individualsperceive themselves to be entrepreneurs.Following a review of theliterature on the relationships among gender business accomplishments andentrepreneurial self-image, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154398
Cover Image
Culture's Role in Entrepreneurship : Self-Employment Out of Dissatisfaction
Hofstede, Geert; Noorderhaven, N.; Thurik, Roy; … - 2009
. The bivariate relationship between levelof entrepreneurship and a number of economic factors, cultural traits … thelevel of entrepreneurship at the aggregated societal level. Findings indicate that the factors determining level of … entrepreneurship arecomplex, but the basic finding is that dissatisfaction with society and life ingeneral determines level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201892
Cover Image
Entrepreneurship and the business cycle
Thurik, Roy - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Entrepreneurship has a cyclical component, raising two questions. Is the entrepreneurship cycle related to the business … cycle? And is there causality? A two-way relationship between entrepreneurship and the business cycle would be in line with … the two faces of entrepreneurs: as agents of change creating upswings (opportunity entrepreneurship) and as rational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404921